2018 Supercoppa Italiana

2018 Supercoppa Italiana
EventSupercoppa Italiana
Date16 January 2019
VenueKing Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
RefereeLuca Banti
Attendance61,235
2017
2019

The 2018 Supercoppa Italiana was the 31st edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, the Italian football super cup. It was played on 16 January 2019 at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[1] With Juventus winning both the 2017–18 Serie A championship and the 2017–18 Coppa Italia, the game was played between Juventus and the 2017–18 Coppa Italia runners-up, Milan.

This was the third meeting between the two teams in the Supercoppa Italiana. Juventus won the first meeting in 2003 in East Rutherford, New Jersey on penalties, and Milan returned the favour, also on penalties in 2016 in Qatar. Both teams before the match had a record seven Supercoppa titles. Saudi Arabia became the sixth different country to host a Supercoppa Italiana. Juventus won the match, with the only goal coming from Cristiano Ronaldo in the 61st minute, and became the first club to win eight Supercoppa Italiana titles.[2]

Venue

On 6 June 6 2018, it was announced that the match would take place in January 2019 in Saudi Arabia as part of an agreement to play three of the next five editions of the tournament in that territory.[3][4] This was the tenth time that the Supercoppa Italiana was held outside Italy after the editions of 1993, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Subsequently, on December 5, 2018, the Lega Serie A announced that the match would be played on 16 January 2019 at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah,[5] being the first international football tournament to be held at the stadium since its inauguration in 2014.

King Abdullah Sports City
Capacity: 62,345

Match

Details

Juventus1–0Milan
  • Ronaldo 61'
Report
Attendance: 61,235
Referee: Luca Banti


Juventus
Milan
GK 1 Poland Wojciech Szczęsny
RB 20 Portugal João Cancelo
CB 19 Italy Leonardo Bonucci
CB 3 Italy Giorgio Chiellini (c)
LB 12 Brazil Alex Sandro Yellow card 26'
CM 30 Uruguay Rodrigo Bentancur downward-facing red arrow 86'
CM 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina Miralem Pjanić Yellow card 44' downward-facing red arrow 64'
CM 14 France Blaise Matuidi
RW 10 Argentina Paulo Dybala Yellow card 90+4'
LW 11 Brazil Douglas Costa downward-facing red arrow 89'
CF 7 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo
Substitutes:
GK 21 Italy Carlo Pinsoglio
GK 22 Italy Mattia Perin
GK 32 Italy Mattia Del Favero
DF 2 Italy Mattia De Sciglio
DF 24 Italy Daniele Rugani
DF 37 Italy Leonardo Spinazzola
MF 6 Germany Sami Khedira upward-facing green arrow 89'
MF 23 Germany Emre Can upward-facing green arrow 64'
FW 18 Italy Moise Kean
FW 33 Italy Federico Bernardeschi upward-facing green arrow 86'
Manager:
Italy Massimiliano Allegri
GK 99 Italy Gianluigi Donnarumma
RB 2 Italy Davide Calabria Yellow card 82'
CB 17 Colombia Cristián Zapata
CB 13 Italy Alessio Romagnoli (c) Yellow card 74'
LB 68 Switzerland Ricardo Rodriguez Yellow card 87'
CM 79 Ivory Coast Franck Kessié Red card 74'
CM 14 France Tiémoué Bakayoko
CM 39 Brazil Lucas Paquetá downward-facing red arrow 71'
RW 7 Spain Samu Castillejo Yellow card 45+2' downward-facing red arrow 71'
LW 10 Turkey Hakan Çalhanoğlu Yellow card 21'
CF 63 Italy Patrick Cutrone downward-facing red arrow 79'
Substitutes:
GK 25 Spain Pepe Reina
GK 90 Italy Antonio Donnarumma
DF 12 Italy Andrea Conti upward-facing green arrow 79'
DF 20 Italy Ignazio Abate
DF 22 Argentina Mateo Musacchio
DF 23 Croatia Ivan Strinić
DF 93 Uruguay Diego Laxalt
MF 4 Italy José Mauri
MF 16 Italy Andrea Bertolacci
MF 18 Italy Riccardo Montolivo
FW 9 Argentina Gonzalo Higuaín upward-facing green arrow 71'
FW 11 Italy Fabio Borini upward-facing green arrow 71'
Manager:
Italy Gennaro Gattuso

Assistant referees:
Fabiano Preti
Matteo Passeri
Fourth official:
Marco Di Bello
Reserve assistant referee:
Daniele Bindoni
Video assistant referee:
Marco Guida
Assistant video assistant referees:
Gianluca Vuoto

Match rules

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Twelve named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Controversy

Following the murder of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey in October 2018, activists and humanitarian associations including Amnesty International have appealed to both the finalist teams and Lega Serie A for the match not to be played in Saudi Arabia. Amnesty International indicated the event as an attempt to "rebrand" its tarnished image, known as "sportswashing".[6][7][8]

Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister of Italy, also labelled the decision to play the match in Saudi Arabia as "disgusting" due to laws regarding women attending the match. Laura Boldrini stated that "the lords of football should not be allowed to trade women's rights." President of Lega Serie A Gaetano Micciché noted progress compared to a year ago when no women at all were allowed in the stadium.[9] Women will only be allowed in one section of the stadium, which comprises around 15 percent of the 60,000 seats, and will not be allowed to sit elsewhere in the stadium.[10] However, Micciché has defended the decision to host the Supercoppa in Saudi Arabia stating that this will help to promote the Italian game to a worldwide audience.[11] He also said that women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to attend matches since January 2018, adding that women will be able to sit in family area.[12]

The Serie A's MENA rightsholder beIN Sports condemned the hosting of the Supercoppa in Saudi Arabia in response to the pirate broadcaster BeoutQ. beIN Sports had been forced to cease offering its services in Saudi Arabia due to the Qatar diplomatic crisis, which has led to BeoutQ illegally retransmitting its programming in the country as an alternative outlet. beIN Sports has repeatedly accused the service of operating from within Saudi Arabia. In November 2019, beIN Sports threatened to cut its ties with the Serie A over the Saudi deal, accusing it of "making a quick buck from the very entity that has been stealing its rights for two years."[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Italian Supercup to be played in Saudi Arabia". Juventus. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Supercoppa: Juve squeeze past Milan". Football Italia. 16 January 2019.
  3. ^ "THE ITALIAN SUPER CUP WILL BE PLAYED IN SAUDI ARABIA". Lega Serie A. June 6, 2018.
  4. ^ AFP (June 6, 2018). "Saudi Arabia to host Italian Super Cup between AC Milan and Juventus in 2019". Scroll.in.
  5. ^ AP (December 5, 2018). "Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia moves forward". USA TODAY.
  6. ^ "Supercoppa italiana: appelli a Juventus e Milan per boicottare la finale di Riad dopo l'assassinio di Khasshoggi" (in Italian). SuperNews. 26 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Caso Kashoggi, l'opposizione chiede al governo di togliere la Supercoppa italiana all'Arabia Saudita" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 27 October 2018.
  8. ^ "'Juve & Milan mustn't play in Saudi Arabia'". Football Italia. 26 October 2018.
  9. ^ Gillen, Nancy (4 January 2019). "Decision to play Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia branded "disgusting" due to restrictions on female fans". inside the games.
  10. ^ "Rules for women at Supercoppa". Football Italia. 2 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Serie A president defends Supercoppa Italiana venue". FOX Sports Asia. 2019-01-04. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  12. ^ "Micciche defends Saudi Supercoppa | Football Italia". www.football-italia.net. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  13. ^ "Serie A issued US$500m threat as BeIN flexes muscle over Saudi Supercoppa deal". SportsPro Media. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  14. ^ Vivarelli, Nick (21 January 2019). "Qatar's beIN Group Calls on Hollywood to Help Fight Pirate Broadcaster Allegedly Backed by Saudi Arabia (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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